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I'm a little confused, are you asking if you can appeal based on you making a mistake and agreeing to the extension?

A have a neighbor that has a history of illegally parking two of his vehicles in front of my house. One morning last month, I had to call the police because of his commercial vehicle parked in the middle of the street obstructing my exit and entrance to my driveway. The police had the vehicle towed because it was a clearly illegally parked. The following morning a few police were at my door to question me about an allegation the same neighbor from across the street made against me. He reported that I stuck my head out of a window at midnight and told him that I would burn his car. The police informed me about the seriousness of threat of arson and I told them that it is a FALSE allegation. The neighbor filed a Peace Order against me based on false allegations and I filed a Peace Order against him because I felt very threatened by the serious false allegation. I am an educator and have a home business working with students and felt the need to protect mylivelihood. We were scheduled two different court dates and I requested a consolidation which was granted. I was expecting one hearing which caused some confusion in me. The plaintiff and I were called up and when the Judge asked if I "consented" to NOT do certain things I responded "YES" to the consent to assure the judge that I will not be doing those things without realizing that I was agreeing to an "extension" to the Peace Order. When I got back to my seat someone informed me that I just agreed to an extension. After the hearing, I spoke with the Civil clerk and they told me that need to file an Appeal. Will an Appeal hearing at the Circuit Court level rehear the case?

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Filing an Appeal directly from an Order to which you agreed is not likely to be successful. The appeals court will look at the record and say you agreed to the Order.

SO you need to go back to the first judge and ask for a reconsideration. You do this by filing a Motion in the original Court that heard the matter asking for a withdrawal of the Peace Order. You need to file the motion prior to the appeal period expiring. In the Motion state that you did not intend to agree to an extension and was confused by the Judge's questions. Ask the judge reconsider the Order.

If he grants the reconsideration there will be no need for the appeal. If he denies the reconsideration you can appeal from the denial Order.

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